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Graphics / Re: How to render in color emojis?

« on: December 10, 2023, 04:46:24 pm »

I tried using sf::String and the seguiemj font, as Noto also shows blank boxes

sf::Font font;
font.loadFromFile("C:/Windows/Fonts/seguiemj.ttf");

sf::Text text;
text.setFont(font);

text.setString(u8"🌙");

window.draw(text);

However this displays the following:
https://ibb.co/Lrx0YwB

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Graphics / How to render in color emojis?

« on: December 10, 2023, 05:09:19 am »

Hello! I am trying to render an emoji on screen using Google's Noto font. However, it always either renders blank squares, or nothing at all. Here's a link to the download:
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Color+Emoji

And here's the small amount of code I've written to try and display it.

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

int main()
{

        sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(640, 480), "Emoji", sf::Style::Close);
        sf::Event event;
        sf::Clock clock;
        while (window.isOpen())
        {
                while(window.pollEvent(event))
                {
                        switch (event.type)
                        {
                        case(sf::Event::Closed):
                        {
                                window.close();
                        }
                        }
                }

                window.clear();

                sf::Font font;
                font.loadFromFile("NotoColorEmoji-Regular.ttf");
               
                sf::Text text;
                text.setFont(font);
                text.setString("Test Text");

                window.draw(text);

                window.display();
        }

        return 0;
}

What am I doing wrong? I'm pretty sure this font doesn't contain any standard characters, which makes sense, but if that's the case, how do I render anything at all? Do I use Unicode? Glyphs? If it's either, then how do I use them?
I'm VERY new to the concept of fonts and character encoding as a whole, so I understand if I've missed something completely obvious.

Thank you for your help!